He is due to stand trial over the the pepper spray allegation, said to have happened in Burnham Road, Allerton, on August 4, 2018, later this month.

The disqualified driving charge relates to his driving of a Mercedes in Mountain View, Helsby, near Frodsham, Cheshire, on August 21, 2018.

He previously admitted having a mobile phone in HMP Liverpool in September last year.

12:59

Case concludes

Walker is jailed for 33 months.

Banned from driving for four years and four months and will have to re sit an extended driving test.

That concludes today’s hearing.

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12:43

Walker shows no emotion

Walker shows no emotion on the video link, after being given his sentence.

He has also been ordered by the judge to ‘sit an extended driving test before he can drive again’.

12:41

Sam Walker jailed for 33 months

Judge Aubrey says that means in total Walker will be jailed for 33 months.

12:40

Sentence

Judge Aubrey says for the dangerous driving on August 4, the sentence is 15 months.

For the dangerous driving on August 11, the sentence is 12 months, to be served consecutively to the 15 months.

He imposes concurrent sentences for the driving while disqualified counts and for possession of MDMA.

Judge Aubrey imposes a six month sentence for possession of the mobile phone. This will be served consecutively.

12:39

“Total and utter disregard” to other road users

Judge Aubrey says: “You were determined to seek to evade the apprehension and the lawful apprehension of you by the police.

“You had a total and utter disregard to all others who were on the roads.”

He says he collided with a stationary car. “It was but luck that no one was injured, let alone seriously injured.

He says he had a total disregard for road traffic laws in August last year.

12:38

“Grossly excessive speeds”

Judge Aubrey says the police pursuit on August 4 saw him drive at “grossly excessive speeds”.

He says Walker drove through red traffic lights and on the wrong side of the road.

12:38

Walker knew he should not have a phone in prison

Judge Aubrey says he has considered Walker’s mitigation.

But he says: “ Irrespective as to why you had that mobile phone, you knew you should not.

“It’s a much prized possession within a custodial institution and it has at the very least the capabilities of providing unlimited and unmerited access to others for whatever reason that might be whether it be for nefarious reasons or otherwise.

“That is the gravamen of an offence such as this.”

He says the sentence for the mobile phone possession in prison must run consecutive to any term he will impose for the driving offences.

12:36

Career criminal

Judge Aubrey says: “You’re 35 and it can properly be said that in my judgement you’re a career criminal.

“You have some 45 previous convictions for some 130 offences.”

He says it’s important for the court to ensure that it only takes into account relevant previous convictions.

Judge Aubrey says: “While this court assesses you to be a career criminal and assesses you to be extremely streetwise, the relevant convictions upon your record relate to many, many offences of driving while disqualified and two occasions that relate to offences of dangerous driving.”

He says the dangerous driving relates to a conviction in 2003 and one on July 13, 2016, when he was jailed for 16 months for very similar offences.

Judge Aubrey says those past offences aggravates the seriousness of his position now.

12:33

Judge to sentence

Judge David Aubrey, QC, will now sentence Walker.

He says he will be sentenced for two counts of dangerous driving, three of driving while disqualified and possession of MDMA in August last year.

He will also be sentenced for possessing a mobile phone in prison in September last year.

12:25

Walker “wants to shun criminal activity”

Mr Woods says: “Mr Walker appears sincere in saying in the future he wants to shun criminal activity and have the opportunity of doing the good work he has been doing.

He says his client is “sorry” and wants to put his criminal past behind him and looks forward to being released and wants if possible in the future to be able to drive legitimately.

12:25

Phone not used for criminal activity

Mr Woods says Walker had the phone simply for getting in touch with people as he wasn’t allowed any access to social media.

He says: “It seems the phone was used by many other prisoners, it was a shared phone, but he didn’t have it for any criminal activity.

12:22

Mobile phone was not up his bottom

Mr Woods says although it may not be important to sentencing in terms of the length of sentence, it is important to Walker to point out the phone was not up his bottom.

The barrister says: “He says it was secreted at the top of his legs and wasn’t secreted within his body.

“It’s important perhaps that he makes that point clear. I don’t think it makes any difference to the ultimate sentence.”

12:19

No one injured by his driving

Mr Woods says thankfully in relation to August 4 and 11 while the driving was dangerous it was over a relatively short distance, albeit at high speeds.

He says Walker accepts dangerous driving and driving while disqualified and acknowledged that at that time of day when people were on the streets - including when the driving concluded in residential areas - although no one was hurt there was the potential for it to happen.

12:19

Walker fled police so community work could continue

Mr Woods says Walker was wanted by police while preparing for this container of goods to go over to Africa.

He says when he was stopped by police on August 4, he knew if he was arrested he would be put in custody, would stay there and would not be able to follow through with his good work so decided to evade arrest.

He says police were waiting to try and intercept him on August 4 and he decided to evade capture.

12:15

Walker wanted to be a good role model to his son

Mr Woods says: “He decided at that point he was going to continue to do that. Strangely, he did a lot of good work.

“His intention was to be a good role model to his son and he wanted to help people who were worse off than him.”

He says Walker decided he was not going to be involved in serious crime again as he had in the past and was going to concentrate on helping other people, “because what he saw in Africa shocked him”.

12:11

Charity work

Mr Woods says: “About this time he was prolific in terms of his social media use and there was a great deal of interest in him from a number of other people.”

He says this was not only in relation to criminality but in regards to charity work.

Mr Woods says: “He was engaged in preparing and taking a large container of goods, including food, toys and other items to Sierra Leone.”

He says Walker travelled to Sierra Leone and worked on community projects and helped bring water to a village.

12:03

Released by mistake

Mr Woods, defending, says: “The defendant was in fact arrested at some point during July 2018 and during the course of that arrest suffered a large amount of injuries.”

Mr Woods says Walker was taken to Chester Magistrates’ Court, then released.

It was expected Merseyside Police would arrive to take him to Liverpool in relation to other matters but this did not happen and he was released back into the community.

11:43

Sentencing guidelines

Mr Roberts is now discussing sentencing guidelines with Judge David Aubrey, QC.

He asks for forfeiture and destruction of the mobile phone and MDMA.

This is granted by the judge.

11:34

Previous convictions

Mr Roberts says Walker has 45 convictions for 130 offences dating back to the 1990s.

He has a number of convictions for driving matters including while disqualified in the early 2000s.

He was jailed for 30 months for supplying Class A drugs in 2005. For conspiracy to supply heroin in 2010 he was jailed for 56 months.

He has further offences of driving while disqualified in 2013.

In July 2016 he was convicted of dangerous driving and contempt of court. He was jailed for 29 months. The sentence was varied on appeal and reduced to 23 months after the contempt of court matters were ordered to run concurrent, not consecutive as first imposed.

11:27

Mobile phone in prison

Mr Roberts says Walker was caught with a mobile phone in prison on September 18 last year.

Prison officers went to Walker’s cell at HMP Liverpool after receiving a tip-off that he had a mobile phone concealed about his person.

As they entered the cell, the defendant was seen to fiddle round his buttocks as if concealing something. He was searched.

He was asked to squat because it was thought he had something secreted up his bottom and a mobile phone fell from his buttocks.

He threatened staff afterwards. The phone was found to be working.

11:26

Single mum had to pay £400 to repair car damage

On August 21, he was seen driving a Mercedes Benz car. Officers approached. He stopped and was arrested. Four tablets of MDMA were discovered on him. He gave a no comment interview.

Mr Roberts says photos show the driving on August 11. They show how he nearly clipped a black car in front of him.

He says photos show him overtaking the black car in the Ford Focus and making off.

Mr Roberts says Ms Henry had to pay £400 excess for the damage to her car as Walker was not insured. She is a single mum and struggled to afford this. She was relieved and grateful no-one was injured as there are often children playing in the street where it happened.

11:26

Car narrowly avoided head on collision

The second driving offences were on August 11 at 7.30pm.

Walker was in a Ford Focus in Kensington heading for the city centre. The car had no insurance. A police chase began. Police pulled alongside and told him to stop. He said “okay mate”, slowed down, but when the car pulled up behind, accelerated off.

Mr Roberts says he hit 50mph, went on the wrong side of the road towards oncoming traffic and one dark car narrowly avoided a head on collision.

He reached Edge Lane,went through a red light at 45mph in a 30mph zone, went down the wrong side of the road, down a slipway to Elms House Road in Old Swan, but came to a dead end.

Walker spoke to a woman, Ms Henry, who came out her house and asked her if he could step inside her house to phone his friend because there was something wrong with his car. She was reluctant and he ran away.

She saw he had clipped her car before coming to a halt. He had been recognised by police pursuing him.

11:25

Proceeding to sentence

Judge Aubrey says he intends to proceed to sentence.

Mr Roberts says there was dangerous driving and driving while disqualified in August 2018.

He says Walker admitted some offences in September and some in December. Two more were disposed with today.

He says on July 2016 he was jailed for 23 months over dangerous driving adn banned from driving for 23 months, which would end in May 2018, but only if he passed an extended re-test.

On August 4, 2018, he was wanted for offences of dishonesty. At 7.15pm police spotted him on the A562 in a white BMW one series. He passed through a red light. He was pursued. He hit speeds of 100mph in Speke Boulevard.

In a 50mph zone, he maintained a speed of up to 90mph. He went through another red light, narrowly avoided collision with other cars, went the wrong way up a road, crashing into a drive fence in Dinsmore Avenue and escaped on foot.

Mr Roberts says he was identified by officers and linked forensically to the car.

11:18

Why wasn’t Walker produced in court?

Judge Aubrey asks if he adjourned the case, when Walker could be produced from HMP Hull.

Mr Woods says he has not ascertained this from HMP Hull. It is some distance away.

He asks why he has not been produced in person today. Mr Woods says he does not know. His production today was ordered by Judge Andrew Menary, QC, last week.

Mr Woods says it may be because Walker has made threats to prison staff as part of the case involving the mobile phone and that could be why prison staff are reluctant to bring him here.

11:17

Outstanding matters

Mr Woods says there are other outstanding matters that also need to be attended to.

The court hears these could be dealt with if he was brought here in person at the magistrates court.

11:17

Sentencing

Mr Roberts says he could be sentenced now, but Mr Woods, defending, says his client wishes to be present.

Judge Aubrey asks if Walker hails from Liverpool. Mr Woods says he does. The judge says he understands why he may wish to be sentenced here in person.

11:17

Not guilty of two charges

He has admitted six counts but two are outstanding, possessing a prohibited weapon and a controlled drugs, cannabis. He was due to be trialled on Monday but due to witness difficulties and other considerations the Crown has considered the position and offers no evidence on those charges.

Judge Aubrey says formal not guilty verdicts will be returned on these counts.